Photography and Video

Robin uses Google Photos to back up her images and has noticed it's having issues with facial recognition feature from younger to older. It'll recognize adults rather easily, but the older images of her kids not so much. Leo says that Google's facial recognition measures many physical facial features and it may be that younger to adult represents too much of a difference to connect the dots and recognize them as the same person, but as an adult.

Michael was in Las Vegas recently and took some great time-lapse photos, but when he plugged in his SD card to his computer, the photos can't be seen. But he sees them on his camera. Leo says that Michael's camera can be connected via WiFi to his mobile device and he can send it that way if you see them in the DCIM. Was it Raw? Your computer may not be able to read it without a reader. It may also be that your SD card has failed, but the camera can see the thumbnails. Leo recommends using Recuva (Windows) and see if you can recover the files.

Chris wants to know if the SoloShot robotic camera would be good for recording his son playing hockey. Leo says the technology which follows people is pretty cool. That could be an ideal way to keep track of his kid during the action. Another one called Pixio uses a smartphone. But the downside is that when he is indoors, he'll need to set up additional transponders to know where it is in the indoor space. 

Alex wants to do Facebook live by connecting a GoPro to his iPad. Leo recommends considering buying the MEVO camera. It is designed to stream live directly to Facebook, YouTube, etc. in 4K. If he streams in 1080p, it's like having 4 cameras at once. If going with the GoPro, then he'll need to use GoPro's software to do it. The challenge will be inputting the audio. The chatroom says he can use a USB-C mic adapter into the GoPro. GoPro has a 3.5mm adapter here.